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Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-08-08
buy Your Lots
Herring Trees and vines

This week in the MeGarry tract before thu
advance from Staunton q Matthews, No
3 North Main street.
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The name of owner of any lot in Los An
geles county furnished Immediately.
Los ANGELES ABSTRACT Co.,
10 Court st Room T.
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Has trebled within year and will increase
proportionately in the year to come. Buy
choice, finely located lots at the auction
there next Tuesday. Information at III W.
First street A. L. MOYE Manager
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ooNsULTATION FREE.

Those who desire to consult with me in
regard to their cases had better call at the
office for consultation and examination,
but, II impossible to do so, can write for a
copy OF my medical treaties, containing q
list Of questions. Address,
NJ. HILTON WILLIAMS, m. D.,
rs North Main g. Ios Angeles. csl. Z
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Auction at Santa Monica
Next Wednesday, August 10th. Santa Fe
tract. Ben E. Ward, Auctioneer.
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PARASITES MAGNIFIED 4SO TIMEs.)

This disease, which has proved so obsti-
nate to the general practitioner, who proba-
bly, does not cure five per cent. of his cases,
is conquered readily by our new treatment.
Over 1000 cases have been treated during
the last three years in this city by this new
treatment, and in fully ninety per cent. sue
cessfully.
Uundrpds of references can he given
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A Home frS
The Population Of santa Ana

To some one. Why not you? Call on Stau
ton Il Matthews, No. 3 n. Main street.
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CONSULTATION FREE.

OFFICE HOURS-9 A. N. to IL NJ, and to
6P.M. SUNDAYS to 6P. M
w. N. DAVIS, M. d.,
AK N. Spring St., Los Angeles, over Peo-
PIES Store. jy26M
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NEWS OF THE MORNING.

EAsrERN.-The Chicago Knights of Labor
have declared war against Armour d Co...
Two detectives having i'll charge H. Nc
Mann, charged with robbery, were attacked
near Ravenna, O., by confederates OF the
prisoner and mortally wounded.
mour. the Chicago packer, has caused the
arrest of Knights of Labor......A destruct-
i've waterspout occurred near Carthage,
Tenn. Threats are made in New York to
stop the wheels of all industries. dis
astrous floods are reported from Cincinnati.
1.-THE President has signed the interstate
commerce BILL. Charles Talbot, who
stole Fanny Davenport's diamonds. has
been arrested at Kansas City The United
States Senate has passed the railroad at
torney's bill......There is trouble brewing
between the Chicago publishers and the
printers ...... Silver in New York, 1927.
FoREIGN-Patrick Burns, a coal mer-
chant of Toronto. Canada, has failed for
800, 000...... Exciting rumors on the Euro
pean situation were current IN London
yesterday The French Minister of For
eign Affairs has assured the German En-
bassador of Frances pacific Intentions.
Emperor William has sent message to the
Gar. saving that Germany has no intention
of attacking France......Silver IN London,
AID.
PAcIFIc Coast Refugio Rivera, an es-
capped murderer, has been arrested at No
gales. A. T......The Woman Suffrage Act
has been declared unconstitutional by the
Supreme Court of Washington Territory.
...... The Uncle Sam mine brought three
bars of bullion to Redding. ...... Fiske, who
shot jarrett at Fresno, has been admitted
TO s. 900 bail $50. Louis Steen has been held
for the murder of Homer ]. Stone at Salt
LakeJ Ritchenside perished from cold
near Centralia. w. L.
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MAUDLIN sENTIMENTALIIY.

A correspondent of the Chicago Inter
Ocean takes the newspapers to task for the
atmosphere of maudlin sentimentality
thrown about Spies and his associates
There has been on the part of many of the
reporters an evident disposition, he says, to
sit at the feet of Spies and write of him as
superior man, and some of the ineuba-
tions of the reporters have been as objec-
tionable as the worst of the letters written
by light-headed women who have made no
secret of their admiration for the con-
demned men.
Thereupon the Inter0cean replies that
if it has ever erred in the direction spoken
of it makes humble apology to the public !;
that lis policy is to discuss questions in
volved in the conviction and punishment
of the Anarchists, and not to enter into
any matters touching their personal af-
fairs. Having explained this much, that
journal turns to some exposure of the in
side of this sickly sentimentality about
Spies. For instance, it alleges that the
newspaper offices of Chicago have been
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Lecture ON California.

The Navarro Ohio Independent of a
recent date has the following notice of a
lecture delivered in that city by Rev. H. J..
Becker, formerly of Sacramento:
Those of our citizens who failed to at
tend the lecture upon California" on
Monday evening" by Rev. Henry J. Becker,
missed one of the best lectures ever deliv-
cred in Navarro, and a grand intellectual
treat. The lecturer started with his atten-
tive and much-aI preciative audience from
the w. & L. L. station in Navarro, got them
all first-class tickets for S127 per person,
took them. in their imagination, to Mas
sillion. then TO Chicago, OMAHA, Ogden,
and then commenced the gradual ascent OF
the famous Rocky mountains. But we
cannot begin TO describe it. He is blessed
with remarkably strong descriptive pow
ers. AS he takes his hearers with him
over and down the mountains his descrip-
tons are SO vivid and startling that in your
Imagination you can almost see the various
points of interest loom up before you, and
think you feel the Feelings of the cars as
they go dashing, plunging, laundering
down the steep grade and around the sharp
curves. He then goes with his audience
to all Of the many points of interest, with
which California alone is so well blessed
and as he so graphically describes her
rich mountains, with their vast gold and
silver deposits; her fertile valleys, with
their acres of golden grain, orchards of
choice fruit, beautiful homes and lovely
flowers, her mammoth trees tone of which
has been felled to the ground, is hollow
and will freely admit of man on horse
back riding through it and out at a knot
holel, her famous Yosemite falls and val
lev. forest of petrified- trees, the geysers.
from which water will occasionally squirt
TO the hight of seventy-fve feet. her hot
springs, oil springs, sweet springs, bitter
springs, her beautiful cities and p;ctur-
esque scenery; as you listen to the de-
scription of all these wonderful things
YOU cannot help but feel that you are in
wonder land,n of which you are sorry
YOU are not resident, and you are led TO
exclain Z" California, truly thou art great
and wond erful !" Mr.. Becker is pleasing
talker, uses fine rhetoric; his flights of
oratory are grand; ne is the happy pos
SCISSOR of a remarkable flow of language, and
as a linguist he occupies a front rank.
His lecture gave universal satisfaction. and
he was urgently requested to deliver an
other lecture at this place in the near fu-
ture. He has consented to do so. and will
lecture again on next Tuesday evening,
February LIST, al which time he will deliver
his famous lecture on Man, From the
Sublime 10 the Ridiculous" All should
go and hear him, and we miss our guess if
the church will not be crowded.
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haunted by women and men who endeavor
to exercise an influence in favor of Spies
and Parsons. "The talk of some of these
people was silly and as shameful as any
thing that has ever been uttered in connec
ton with any trial. Some of the infatu-
ated women went so far as to speak of
Spies as being the most Christlike man
that they had ever seee. Some there were
to suggest that he might be Christ and
this was the second coming. The sacri-
legious spirit of these utterances did not
seem to strike many people who made
strong prctensions as church members
The absurdity of attributing such qualities
to man who was a habitual scoffer did
not occur to men who were given to be-
lief that they possessed large amount of
common sense"
A great deal of allowance is to be made
for the impulsive sympathy of women for
those in trouble, but it is something of a
revelation that this sentiment has become
so feyerish among Christian protesting
women as to develop abnormal sympathy
for the Anarchists, that is nothing short of
insanity. 1t appears that there has been
diligent effort on the part of certain inhu-
ences to cultivate the sympathetic quality
to an abnormal stage, which in its purity
is the chief attribute of wcmanly char
acter. Our contemporary AYERS that when
the full history of this organized move
ment to interest young girls and suscept-
ible women in condemned Anarchist has
been written there will be good many
people to blush for shame. cit seems in
credible to the practical, wholesome
minded people of everyday life that
women and men could be given to such
utterances as are reported above. This is
a mere hint at the maudlin, morbid senti-
ment that has found utterance in a circle
responsible for much of the recent scandal"
1t adds, by way of apology for the news
papers that have not said more about it
than they have, from reluctance to speak
severely of women This is more credit
able to their gallantry than to their judg
ment. The press of Chicago might have
put wholesome check upon the maudlin
sentimentality, by publishing the names
and expressions of the Christian women
and therattle- Drained men-who became
apologists for assassins. The papers could
have better faced the charge of prosecuting
the condemned, than by silence have be-
come, at they did, abettors of the insane
and vicious sentimentality that led other
wise respectable women to take steps to
thwart the execution Of the laws.
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Barbed Wire Fences.

EDS. RECORD UNION: l understand there
is bill before the Legislature in regard to
barbed wire fences, and would beg leave to
make suggestion on the subject through
the medium OF your paper. The disadvant-
ages of building fences wholly of wire is
obvious to all. Scarcely day passes but
we hear of some animal being killed or
disabled by them. 1t las been my mis-
fortune to lose four valuable horses within
a year, and naturally l feel an interest in
the subject. which is no doubt shared by
many others.
My suggestion is this: To set the fence
posts not over eight feet apart; then either
put three six-inch boards at the bottom,
with wire aboue, or put one board on top,
with wire below, and to make it illegal TO
build or maintain fences constructed wholly
of barbed wire. Very respectfully,
GEO. GEIsENDoRFER.
Weimar Placer county Cal
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An Abuse of Power.

EDS. RECORD UNION: Will you please
publish the following and oblige stranger
in your city
This evening, while in the lobby of the
Senate with lighted cigar in my hand,
not thinking tina. | was infringing on any
rules-seeing other gentlemen smoking
the first thing came to ray notice was that
the Sergeant alarms knocked the cigar
out of my hand, remarking at the same
time that they did not allow niggers TO
smoke in the lobby. My answer to him
was, that seeing other gentlemen smoking
did not think there was any error com
mitted. The Hon. Mr.. Delmas was pres
ent at the time, and if this gentleman was
smoking | will venture to say that this
genteel SergeaDt-at- Arms would not dare
to abuse him as he did me. ! am a citizen
and gentleman, 10 the contrary notwith-
standing The time is long passed when,
as it was said, that colored man had no
rights that white man is bound to respect.
His clerk, man by the name Of Mantle,
not being satisfied at the humiliation the
gallant Mr.. Wilcox inflicted, resorted to
brute force by striking me with his cane.
Mr.. Editor, | have tolerated this not be-
cause | am a coward, but because, as have
already stated, am a stranger in this city.
Respectfully, yours, JOHN s. WILKINS.
Sacramento, February 4, 1887.
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LEGISLATIVE NOTES.


The Association of California Pioneers and the
Native Sons of the Golden West are making a
strong fight for the passage of Mahler's Assem-
bly, bill, which reads: 1.-THE sum of 5000 is
hereby appropriated out of the general fund to
provide for the erection of monument in
Coloma, FL Dorado county, at the grave of J. W.
Marshall. deceased. Said sum, or so much
thereof as they may deem necessary, shall be
expended for the purpose hereinbefore men
toned, under the direction of the State Board OF
Examiners, who shall have the sole charge OF
the work, which shall be completed within two
years. The Controller is ordered to draw his
warrant in favor of said Board of Examiners
for all expenses incurred under the provisions
of this Act, and the Treasurer is directed to pay
the same.
Last evening the Joint Committee on Irriga-
ton, Senate and Assembly, met and considered
Assembly bill No. II, to provide for the acquisi-
ton and distribution of water for irrigation pur-
poses. The btll was so amended that two
thirds vote can condemn the water in the dis
trict where the same is necessary for public
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other hand, it can be replied. first, that 1t
enables the machine men of party to con-
centrate their efforts upon one point, and
that won, to control through one man
what before they managed through scores
of men; secondly, without a change in the
methods of selecting nominees-and which
change can only be effected by discharge
Of political duty by the many-the people
will have only a choice between candidates
subseryient to the machinery controlled in
each great party by like Objectionable in
fluences; thirdly, that the present system
is better than the new, without the revolu-
ton indicated, since the machine element,
wiser than its opponents, permits the lat
ter some triumphs in order not to utterly
revolt the voting masses.
These are the open questions now being
debated, and they hinge upon the neglect
of political duty in the genesis of govern
ment. All such devices as the vesting of
great power in few under present politi-
cal methods, are palliatives, partial rene
dies perhaps, but not specifics such as are
needed to purify the stream at its source.
This can never be done short of the ward
meeting, the primary, and the caucus.
Just so long as these are surrendered to
the control of the few, the men who testify
to independence and capacity by refusing
to submit themselves to the bargain and
sale policy of bossism, will p-t come for
ward-with here and there N exception,
where spasmodic revolt com"lands respect
and works the defeat OF the machine.
Just SO long as political dirty is surren-
dered to the few, it is natar-l to expect
the few to use their powe": for. self
reward. Just so long as the people neg
lect the primal political duty in Amer
lean city, so long will ii remain, as David
Dudley Field statistically proves is true in
New York, that the very few will dictate
to the very many who they shall vote for
in municipal government.
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THy DEAru OF FErrEs AND HIS WIFE

THE DEATH OF FErTEs AND HIS WIFE
The autopsy on the bodies of Andrew and
Catharine Fettes was made yesterday 1t
was found that four bullets had entered
the woman's body. One passed through
the left hand. which appeared TO have been
thrown up as guard then through the
rim of the left ear into the head, and lodged
in the temporal bone on the opposite side.
Another bullet passed through the neck,
from right to left. A third entered on the
left side of the body, fracturiDg the ninth
rib, and passed out on the right side near
the twelfth rib. In its passage through the
body this bullet perforated the diaphragm
and spleen and lacerated the intestines.
The fourth wound was to the right of the
spine, and the ball penetrated the right
kidney, where it was found. The shot that
killed the murderer passed through the
roof of his mouth, through the brain, and
lodged in the shattered bone at the top of
the heads. T. Post, February 4h.
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the discussion of irrigation and drainage
in their bearings upon the alkali question,
in the light of past experience, not only
in California, but in other irrigation coun-
tries, cannot and should not be postponed,
since to do so can but result in an unne-
cessary repetition of the same costly ex-
perience."
The pamphlet from which We have
made these important extracts is not
large, but well filled with fact recitals,
and ought to have the widest possible
reading by all interested in the irrigation
problem.
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IT is very gratifying to notice the activ-
ity and reawakened interest in this city
concerning immigration schemes ard work.
Now is the time for action. The centers of
population and commerce are to be fixed
in California in the next year or two. The
city or county that is laggard now, Will
surely be cleft out in the cold" We have
no time to spare in this matter, and ought
to put much money into the new effort.
Sacramento yesterday sent second repre-
sentative to Los Angeles, and our agency
there will now be prominent and estab
lished fact. But that is not enough. We
must prepare for strangers to come to US.
1t will avail us nothing to say to them,
Here are lands, buy and till them; here
are plats, buy and lay out colonies and
bring water upon the soil" On the con-
trary we ought to prepare colony plats, lay
out streets and reads, make needed reser-
vations, ditch and pipe water to the lands
where needed, and then say to eolonists,
Here, for small sum down, you
may have credit, and keep enough
to live upon until the soil yields
here you may locate and at once begin
labor that will yield you returns the first
year; here you will be surrounded by
neighbors, have highways provided, be
assured of schools, and more than back
woods comforts" On that plan all colony
work has proceeded that has succeeded.
Our people with lands to sell" may as
well take in their signs unless they are
willing to sacrifice one acre in ten to
double the value on the remaining nine.
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ASSEMBLY,.

The Assembly opened in usual form at 10 A. VI.
petit II in favor OF the enactment of a sun
day law was presented by Gruweu Of Lake
county in this form
I'VE. the undersigned. legal voters of the
State OF California, believing that the best in
terests of the state. material and moral. will be
promoted by a suspension of business and a rest
from labor on one day in seven, would respect
fully petition your honorable body to enact
such Jaw or laws as may be necessary to secure
10 the people of the State This important Oh
Iect"
Ellsworth moved q reconsideration Ofthe vote
by which A. Is. Ii relative 10 persons entitled 10
edmitister upon estates of deceased persons,
was refused a third reading. be reconsidered
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A TINE FOR AcrIoS AND Nor FAITH.-A
newspaper man is the subject of this story
in the Buffalo Courier: He was awakened
in hotel one night by the cry of fire, and
in one spring and two movements was oui
of bed and in the hall. which was filed
with smoke. Just ahead of him was fly
ing figure clad in white, ike himself, and
running at 2:10 clip. A turn in the long
hall and two steps leading to higher level
brought the figure up, or rather down, and
the same cause precipltated the newspaper
man against her Lets pray" cried the
affrighted woman, as she clasped him by
the arm. mo. let's rum" was the reply,
and putting her once more in the right
direction, the lady was soon far ahead,
though her rescuer got out in plenty OF
time. They never saw each other again.
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Committees reported on the following bills:
MISUNDERSTANDING Nos. 2i3, pa, DO 30, 2i3,
49, and against 1i5, 2J5, 80, 29i.
Agriculture. Mining and Mining Arts College
Favoring passage of A. i. 30
Pubic Morals-Reported back petition for n
Sunday law, and asked that The Speaker appoint
a committee of one TO draft bill upon that sub
ject. The House refused to concur in the re
port The committee also reported in favor of
4. B. 277, Z76 and SIS, and against 229 and 22i.
WAYS and Means-Id favor OF A. BIS 35l. $40,
1885, 200, 10. 800 259, Us 3a. So $50, 357, 35S,
O. 36s 1863 SO. $50, 361, so, $50, 3IS, 37g 374,
315, $50 ST. 372 373, 355, go 395, 354, 3G2 1863.
Against 353 and %. 4. b. 552 was Withdrawn.
Claims-In favor of A. i. 81 and y.
Federal Relations-ln favor of $50, s. c. r. 4.
Public Lands-A. Il. l73, with substitute, and
recommend the passage OF the latter.
Corporatons-A: B. 80 with amendments rec
ommeuding the passage of the amended bill.
State spitals-Eavoting A. B. 500, 30S Sei
and sos.
Elections Reported back III wi bout recon-
mendaion and l66 with amendments.
Labor and Capitai-EayoriDg A. i. 3jS.
Indian Afiairs-Against A. i. go.
Municipal Corporations-A. i. 4. amending
1884, 209 . and recommending passage as
amended: also. substitute for A. j. 2l2.
Yosemite Valley, Marlposa Grove. Big Trees
and rores ry-Favoring Senate concurrent II S :
tuition relative ID withdrawal OF the timber land
from sale
Internal Imp-oyements-Favo A. B. 392
The Committee on Silk-Culture was allowed to
go 10 San Francisco. and the committee on Pub
tic Buildings to Santa Clara
Rennison Offered a resolution declaring the
clerkships to the following committees vacant,
as their duties if they ever had any. had long
since ceased: Homestead and LAID Monopoly.
Federal Relations, Mileage Pu.lic Lands. and
Silk-Culture.
on motion Of Briefly, 1t was referred to the
Committee on Attaches
The concurrent resolution instrocting our
Senators aud Representatives in Congress to sup-
port the raisin tariff was adopted. Sha'Iahan
of Shasta and cooinbs OF Napa made strong
arguments in favor of its passage.
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WELL, whose concern is it but his own
and that of his parents and the lady whom
young Mr.. Hearst chooses to marry :?
This dragging of private affairs to public
view by Paul Pry reporters is indecent,
and the parties most interested would lie
justified in feeling and expressing their in
dignation at the intermeddling.
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SAN FRANCISCO AGENCIES.

The paper is for sale at the following places
H. P. Fisher, Room q, Merchants Exchange
who is also Sole Advertising Agent for San
Francisco: Grand and Palace Hotel News
Stands: Market-street Ferry and Junction oil
Market and Montgomery street News Stands.
e. Also. for sale on all Trains leaving and
coming into Sacramento.
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Ir is something of a surprise to hes-
LAWYERS telling the Legislature that it is
folly to encourage the system that all but
coerces the Supreme Court into writing
out opinions. But it is gratifying. We
have loo many opinions now, and very ex-
tended ones and besides multitude o.
preced-uts are the hane of practice. In TX
cases out of ten they are provocative Of
new litigation, when the scheme of law
according to its maxims-is to discourage
contention. Ii the Legislature can, By
any method, break up the practice Of
writing opinions in 50 many cases, it will
do great good to the whole people. TIE
Supreme Court is LOCO cases behind in It's
business. 1t never can catch up if 1t
pursues the present practice of arguing anew
every case in deciding it. Let it be the
rule to affirm, modify or reverse judgments
merely, save where paragraph or two, by
pointing out error, will tend to prevent
others from falling into it.